We have a smaller number of ISPs due to the cost of submarine cables, and ISP prices were high due to profit-seeking. After Starlink came, the incumbent ISPs started to offer unlimited packages for the first time.
Also, Starlink is good as a backup connection for rural areas too.
> No, you can ask your provider to announce the IPs for you via a private ASN, but I have not seen a provider that is cheap enough to do BYOIP without an ASN. Getting your own ASN is the best option.
BYOIP in AWS is free. and VPC have lot of customisable and all are well documented.
> There are times where a AAAA record points to an IP that doesn't respond, but the A record responds and so on
> If it went down for months I wouldn't notice.
you are not alone.
I am building a service to monitor such events. usual up-time monitors mostly checks the v4 address.
I have been using for sw for object storage for a while. I haven't had a a issue with them with object storage.
only problem I had was with a another product called cockpit(they ship metrics about object storage there), which they bundled with object storage product, which cannot be disabled.
This month I had a 12 euro surcharge, because they enabled something in cockpit by default a while ago and suddenly start to charging for it.